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2/23
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The Orestimba Creek Trail veers off the Orestimba Creek Road to the right. I'll stay on the road.

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05758-orestimba-creek-trail-800px.jpg Jackrabbit Lake campsite, morning. Time to get out the iodine tablets.ThumbnailsAha, here's the trail to Kingbird Pond.Jackrabbit Lake campsite, morning. Time to get out the iodine tablets.ThumbnailsAha, here's the trail to Kingbird Pond.Jackrabbit Lake campsite, morning. Time to get out the iodine tablets.ThumbnailsAha, here's the trail to Kingbird Pond.Jackrabbit Lake campsite, morning. Time to get out the iodine tablets.ThumbnailsAha, here's the trail to Kingbird Pond.Jackrabbit Lake campsite, morning. Time to get out the iodine tablets.ThumbnailsAha, here's the trail to Kingbird Pond.

I left Jackrabbit Lake around 11h. To get up that short, steep crazy hill near Jackrabbit Lake, I had to take the 22-pound water bag off the bike and bring it up the hill separately.

Now I'm enjoying backtracking on sometimes-rocky Orestimba Creek Road on the same route I took to get to Jackrabbit Lake.

It is very warm today again. The gravel in the creek bed hasn't heated up much yet, which makes for a more pleasant ride than two afternoons ago in the late-afternoon sun and 100-degree air.

Orestimba Creek Trail veers off to the right and looks enticing, but I stay on the road because it will probably be more ridable, and thus quicker.